Ensure Domestic Tranquility….

September 17, 2009 marks the 222nd anniversary of the day 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed their names to their completed document and, in a burst of what can only be called skeptical optimism, sent the Constitution to the states for formal ratification. (My home state of Maryland, I'm pleased to say, while it made a generally poor showing at the Convention itself—two of its five delegates didn't even sign the thing — was the seventh state to ratify...